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Masonic records contain both historical and administrative detail about lodges, individual members, and operative building traditions.

In early operative times, gild archives such as the Italian Opera records maintained continuous successions of Lodge Masters spanning centuries, along with gild statutes detailing regulations, officer duties, disciplinary fines, and rules for taking on work or managing apprentices 1. Operative records also incorporated Masons' Marks, which were entered into bookkeeping records to credit workmen for completed stones 1. In a notable early example, the 1670 records of Aberdeen Lodge demonstrate that operative and non-operative members alike entered their marks alongside their written names 1. When recorded on fabric rolls, these marks allow historical researchers to track the movement of individual workmen between parishes and to date historic buildings 1.

Modern Grand Lodge and local lodge archives retain extensive documentation of lodge administration and individual careers. The Grand Lodge of India records that present-day sources include minute books, summonses featuring lodge emblems and extracts from the Ancient Charges, petition documents, and historical registers detailing member attendance and office holders. Similarly, the Museum of Freemasonry holds administrative records detailing lodge consecrations, amalgamations, and erasures, alongside membership registers, lodge minute books, warrants, petition forms, and certificates detailing individual Masonic careers. Early manuscript charges, early certificates, historical research papers, and early Grand Lodge minutes are preserved in the Quatuor Coronati Archives.